Art by Isabella Mendez Chronically offline is the new online trend. Your phones are begging you to put them down and dust off the book on your shelf. And it’s not just your phones. You can say goodbye to your laptops, streaming services, and digital clocks. Digital is degrading. That is the message being pushed in the last few months surrounding screen time and the efforts to demolish it. Goodbye 2025 clutter and hello to filling that space with camcorders, CD players, Walkme

There, cold-sweating my way up the single-file line of dresses the price of my once in a blue moon dinner bill, I stand riding my skirt up my legs just enough to be revealing, but not enough to look desperate. Every time I’ve experienced this exact moment, without fail, I ask myself “Am I the only one who feels out of place?” After a painful $30 cash cover-charge, I’ll wind up haunting the club floor to not-that-popular pop hits and wondering why anyone in this room goes out

The 2000s have resurfaced in fashion and design, alongside references to the magazines that rule nostalgia. We remember them for their vibrant colors, endless beauty tips, and celebrity news. What might not come to mind is the savvy politics of magazines like Teen Vogue—and the importance of their rollback. If you’ve never heard of Teen Vogue, or only remember it as checkout aisle fodder, Teen Vogue was once a print magazine for a young millennial (and later Gen Z) audience.

Art by Ava Sophia Hiss So ran the headline of People Magazine. Forget about everything else – this is the biggest, most earth-shattering event of our current day. Forget about the government’s current dedication to dismantling itself, the collapsing economy, the mass deportations. Ignore those snotty boys with facemasks and rifles, the hotblooded murders, the dead-eyed plutocrats and their assurances of total annihilation. Pay no heed to the distant death tolls, the ongoing w

Art by Mahati Santhanakrishnan Surveillance has been a staple of the American experiment since its inception. What started as intercepting the Plymouth Rock postal service has mutated into a behemoth of digital databases harvested from the public en masse. But the government is not the only one watching. The people have their own form of mass surveillance: Gossip. The connection between private whispers and the DHS hunting for immigrants may seem tenuous, but US history shows

Art by Chassidy Stephenson In my youth, I was staunchly against gossip. I thought of gossip as a sort of infinite lie vortex. Because nothing that anyone said in passing would ever be fact-checked, the annals of the gossip economy would always be rife with the sorts of lies that could ruin someone’s reputation in an instant if they were believed. As I got older, I started to soften my stance as I realized that there was more to gossip than the infinite lie vortex. As much as

Gossip, Dating, Surveillance and the Apps that Fuse Them Together Art by Jordan Baker In our current cultural and technological epoch where matters of the heart are administered, governed, and corroded by the screen, it feels almost natural that someone would use those same digital means to attempt to mediate the dangers inherent to such a digitized experience of love. The Tea app was created in 2023 by Sean Cook, a white man with a Business degree from UConn. The Tea app –

She casts long shadows over me as I rest To love her is torture Alive and desperate, she builds castles from thread White towers, cocoons, endless stairs that lead to nowhere My creator, she bears me everything On this planet only we inhabit She hums as she dances so beautifully She spins spiderwebs in her sleep If she weren’t mine I would let them swallow her whole The delirium of power makes her fragile and angry One wrong twist in her plié and the facade will crack Sh

“Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite” - Opening voiceover to the 2007 Pilot of Gossip Girl by the anonymous blogger and titular character Art by Chloe Ho Growing up watching The CW’s Gossip Girl from my 700-square-foot downtown East Village apartment was like watching a show in a different language, the uptown depicted was a different world. The characters–high-school heirs and heiresses of the Upper East Side– lived in m

The Shibari Collection reimagines bathing as a ritualistic space for escape and eroticism, blending decompression, transition, and sensuality. The three piece collection includes a chrome dry brush with a braided blonde hair handle and a hand-blown glass bath milk & Epsom salt duo, finished with red silk rope, a flame-worked stopper, and a stained glass lid. Developed for "Eat, Drink, Sleep," taught by Prof. Dana D'Amico, the collection expands Isamaya Beauty’s playful, avan